Re: A few more days with a 600E and questions....

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From: Bill Morrow (penzance_at_gate.net)
Date: Fri Mar 10 2000 - 23:54:54 EST

Chuck...

Chuck Blaisdell wrote:

> Second report on my week with my new 600E.....
>
> Still love the screen and the speed.
> Not as impressed with the modem..... Is this some sort of oddball
> modem? What is a "DSP"?

DSP = Digital Signal Processor..
(Mwave, in an earlier incarnation)

> Should I use my old SimpleTec 56K
> PCMCIA instead?
>

i would'nt..
but a decent pc card modem might be faster..

>
> An oddity; anybody have any wisdom on this: I installed a Linksys
> network card (which is what I'd used in my old 380ED). Works fine, can
> use the network fine. BUT, the boot time for the 600 is now quadrupled,
> from about 30 seconds to about about 1.5 to 2 minutes! When I remove
> the card it goes back to normal behavior.
>

on one of my minitower boxes, win98SE takes a really long time to load..
this started after i did something with hardware or some such..
others have complained as well..

>
> Finally, anybody know if you can stil use MS's Tweakui for Win95 with
> Win 98 SE?
>

i think so..
but i also think that there are some utilities that now allow some of those
same changes to be made..

>
> Thanks,
>
> Chuck Blaisdell 

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** Bill Morrow **   :-)
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